COVID cases are rising, and the Melbourne lockdown continues, becoming the longest in the world. Louis and Alex might feel their commitment to the community waning, but fortunately they've read Daniel A. Bell's writing on communitarian political theory and they're here to tell you why individual rights can and should be occasionally subordinated for the greater good. We give you episode five: what is communitarianism?

Sources used:

Communitarianism and its Critics (1993) by Daniel A. Bell, Oxford University Press

Communitarianism, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/communitarianism/

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